Engineering, Hedge, Operations and Technology

What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence.

Hedge

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI

Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

Strategy

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering

Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term

The Key to Adaptable Companies Is Relentlessly Developing People

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

When it comes to preparing organizations for a complex, high-speed future, many people who work in those organizations, or in management science, talk about the imperative for “ continuous improvement ” in operations. One crucial measure of this success is adaptability.

Development

Development Company Hedge Real Estate

Here Are All the Reasons It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. Through their leading platforms, a significant volume and variety of personal data flows.

Company

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering

4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. “The machine learning model is not a static piece of code — you’re constantly feeding it data,” says one Google engineer.

Outsourcing

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage

How Large Food Retailers Can Help Solve the Food Waste Crisis

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers estimates that annually between a third and a half of all food produced is wasted worldwide. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. Investing in new technology can reduce excess inventory and handling, and cut down on the amount of perishables that ultimately go to waste.

Retail

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term

How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

Payback Period

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge

When Good Management Is a Matter of Life and Death

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

The successful CEOs in our study were hyper-vigilant about threats around them (the paranoia part) and also took action to mitigate those threats, whether in the form of building buffers or hedging (the productive part). Prior to the Oslo terrorist attack, we saw the exact opposite of productive paranoia — a leisurely attitude.

Management

Management Licensing Crisis Hedge

Could Target Have Prevented Its Security Breach?

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Herbalife After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power The New York Times If you’re looking for the corporate-governance version of House of Cards, this is probably the closest you''ll get (though there''s no strategic murdering here, as far as I know). Crisis management Information & technology Technology'

McGregor

McGregor Information Technology Crisis Management COO

Why Cybersecurity Is So Difficult to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

They might impersonate a bank, saying, “Hey, I know you’re about to go and get an operation, don’t forget to transfer some money by clicking here,” or whatever. And then you think, “Well, they know I’m having an operation tomorrow, so they must be a legitimate bank.”

Health Care

Health Care Hedge Banking Training

The Coherent Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

2 in its market; he also insisted that every business provide value no competitor could match, and that they all should be able to gain leverage from GE's distinctive strength in complex, engineering-intensive industrial enterprises — or they wouldn't fit. That was the point of his famous requirement that every business had to be No.

Welch

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals

When an Activist Hedge Fund Thinks a Company’s Salaries Are Too High, Who’s Right?

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The hedge fund founded and run by billionaire Paul Singer just announced that it now owns 6.2% The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom.

Hedge

Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO

End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Similarly, production engineers treated their factories royally and their labor as expendable, until unions and labor laws intervened. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

ROE

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives

Leadership Digital

What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

The Key to Adaptable Companies Is Relentlessly Developing People

Here Are All the Reasons It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data

4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

How Large Food Retailers Can Help Solve the Food Waste Crisis

How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

When Good Management Is a Matter of Life and Death

Could Target Have Prevented Its Security Breach?

Why Cybersecurity Is So Difficult to Get Right

The Coherent Conglomerate

When an Activist Hedge Fund Thinks a Company’s Salaries Are Too High, Who’s Right?

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